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Zusatztext this collection successfully clarifies the advantages and disadvantages of some of the most significant alternative concepts of God over the traditional theistic concept. It opens up a way for some concepts of God from Eastern religions or mystical interpretations of Western religions to come under discussion in contemporary analytic philosophy of religion that is currently under the dominance of the traditional Abrahamic (or, more precisely, Christian) conception of God. The collection is highly recommended to everybody interested in philosophy of religion. All the articles are worth reading Informationen zum Autor Andrei A. Buckareff is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Cognitive Science Program at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. His research focuses on metaphysical and epistemological issues in philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion. His work has been published in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, Philosophia, Philosophical Studies, Religious Studies, Theoria, and elsewhere. Yujin Nagasawa is Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of God and Phenomenal Consciousness and The Existence of God. He has published numerous articles in such journals as Mind, the Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese, the American Philosophical Quarterly, Religious Studies and Faith and Philosophy. He won the Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize in 2007, the Templeton Award for Theological Promise in 2008, and the Excellence in Philosophy of Religion Prize in 2011. Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung According to traditional Judeo-Christian-Islamic theism, God is an omniscient, omnipotent, and morally perfect agent. This volume shows that philosophy of religion needs to take seriously alternative concepts of the divine, and demonstrates the considerable philosophical interest that they hold. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Alternative Conceptions of Divinity and Contemporary Analytic Philosophy of Religion Part I: Pantheism 1: Peter Forrest: The Personal Pantheist Conception of God 2: Karl Pfeifer: Pantheism as Panpsychism 3: John Leslie: A Way of Picturing God 4: Brian Leftow: Naturalistic Pantheism Part II: Panentheism 5: Yujin Nagasawa: Modal Panentheism 6: John Bishop and Ken Perszyk: Concepts of God and Problems of Evil 7: Marilyn McCord Adams: Horrors: To What End? Part III: Further Alternatives 8: Charles Taliaferro: Taking the Mind of God Seriously: Why and How to Become a Theistic Idealist 9: J. L. Schellenberg: God for All Time: From Theism to Ultimism 10: Robin Le Poidevin: Playing the God Game: the Perils of Religious Fictionalism Part IV: Causal vs. Non-Causal Accounts 11: Willem B. Drees: The Divine as Ground of Existence and of Transcendental Values: An Exploration 12: Andrei A. Buckareff: Theological Realism, Divine Action, and Divine Location 13: Hugh J. McCann: Free Will and the Mythology of Causation Part V: Naturalism and Alternative Concepts 14: Emily Thomas: Samuel Alexander's Spacetime God: A Naturalist Rival to Current Emergentist Theologies 15: Eric Steinhart: On Religious Naturalism ...
